While I am all for the coach being the GM, so nonsense can squarely be blamed on one person rather than having us fans wondering if stupidity was the coach's or ordered by Dumars, Stan is the last person on earth for the job. See you all around summer league.

So shifting gears a little here (a cliche inspired by the General's post), without having seen a single move by Van Gundy, what is your expectation for this season? What will you consider a successful season and what is your criteria?

Second round of playoffs. And maybe getting Drummond to the all-star game (that would be nice)
Ending up in the top 4 teams in the east. (Not that hard, at least not right now, who knows, when the free agency starts maybe the east can get heavier again)
Ending up in the top 14 teams in 3 point shooting %.

I want all this young players we have, to have the feeling to be competing in may. To know how it is to play hard, real hard. I want to see them taste the visitor crowd. The pressure.

So shifting gears a little here (a cliche inspired by the General's post), without having seen a single move by Van Gundy, what is your expectation for this season? What will you consider a successful season and what is your criteria?

Right now, I feel like a successful season would be finnishing with a winning record. 2nd round in the playoffs doesn't feel unrealistic either. I mean, there will be teams like Wizards, Hornets, Raptors, Hawks and Nets in the playoffs. Maybe Cavaliers. None of them scare me.I believe we have the potential to be atleast as good as them by next season already.

Hollins and Karl would have both been pretty good hires, but SVG is hardly a random selection. And I don't know where the "panic 1st, coach later" thing comes from, other than a defensive, bitter Shaq quote after SVG called him out for flopping.

Also, this is a completely different organization from when Stan took "verbal dumps" on it. New owner, president, coach, front office, team, etc. A lot of people holding grudges here... it's time to move on.

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Both of his stints in MIA and ORL featured huge stretches of him not actually coaching or adjusting, but just freaking out and throwing his gameplan out the window when things got tight. Things like benching your most needed players in crunch time for the tiniest of lapses get you eliminated faster than your best players making mistakes.

For a guy who's had about as much "success" as Flip Saunders, people are sure giddy about this hire.

I'm not even that opposed to him getting the coaching gig, although I preferred others, but nothing in his history suggests he should be made President with no prior experience. Like I said, he'll have to show me 1st.